“Shogun” star Anna Sawai and “The White Lotus” breakout Aimee Lou Wood are circling the roles of Yoko Ono and Pattie Boyd in the upcoming four-part “ Beatles ” biopic by director Sam Mendes, Variety has confirmed.

Ono, an artist and singer-songwriter, is the widow of John Lennon and one of his biggest creative influences. Sawai would star alongside Harrison Dickinson as Lennon, who was married to Ono from 1969 until his death in 1980. Lennon was shot and killed by a deranged fan outside of their Upper West Side apartment building, the Dakota.

Boyd, a model, met George Harrison (who will be played by Joseph Quinn) when she was 19 on the set of the Beatles 1964 feature “A Hard Day’s Night,” and became a sensation in her own right in 1960s swinging London. They married in 1966; afte

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